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Topic: Anyone Got 2009 Cruises Planned?

Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 12-12-2008 07:06 AM

So are you all credit-crunched or do you have a cruise/s planned for 2009?

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 12-12-2008 09:50 AM

1-25-09 Celebrity Solstice- Eastern Carribean -7 days.
Frosty 4

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Chip
First Class Passenger
Member # 3576

posted 12-12-2008 03:01 PM

I will be sailing on the March 13th sailing of the Carnival Miracle. This is a 8 day roundtrip cruise from Ft. Lauderdale. The ports of call are St. Maarten, St. Lucia, and St. Kitts with 4 days at sea.

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lasuvidaboy
First Class Passenger
Member # 4527

posted 12-12-2008 07:04 PM

No cruises yet but we just booked a week at the Four Seasons-Punta Mita in Nayarit, Mexico for mid-March. That is one of our new late winter hangouts w/friends. I'm trying to convince my partner to do a British Isles cruise for the summer.

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Tim Agg
First Class Passenger
Member # 3185

posted 12-12-2008 11:53 PM

We have a deposit on Prinsendam's November 1-24/09 sailing, Athens to Ft Lauderdale. Having decided how we are getting home from Athens, we now need to figure out how we're going to get to Athens...ideas?

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dougnewman
First Class Passenger
Member # 11349

posted 12-13-2008 12:47 AM

2009/01/07 - REGAL EMPRESS - Bahamas
2009/01/09 - MSC ORCHESTRA - Port Everglades Overnight
2009/07/01 - QUEEN MARY 2 - Canada/New England

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Globaliser
First Class Passenger
Member # 4153

posted 12-13-2008 05:58 AM

Funnily enough, the credit crunch may well have an impact on my plans. We see an opportunity to do a back-to-back-to-back in November/December 2009, on three different ships (two different cruise lines), for three entirely separate events/reasons.

But we won't have the time to do this unless the credit crunch leads to the end of my companion's job. If it does, we will probably grab the chance with both hands!

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Frosty 4
First Class Passenger
Member # 5826

posted 12-13-2008 09:49 AM

Tim I would suggest you plan on going a few days early,mainly due to weather conditions. Of course it's a long haul to Athens. I guess about a 20 hour flight. You will need a few days to adjust to the time differences before your cruise. At least coming home from Ft. Laud. won't be too bad.
Check and see if HAL has a precruise air/hotel package.
Frosty 4

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Grant
First Class Passenger
Member # 1000

posted 12-13-2008 01:14 PM

I'm heading to sea on January 19, a 10 float about the Carribean aboard Emerald Princess. A January sailing in the sun is an annual event, getting away from winter!
I'm also booked on Star Princess for a 32 sailing across the Pacific from Vancouver to Sydney on Sep. 21. However, the Canadian dollar has dropped, and this has increased the price by 34% for me-and second thoughts are present!

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Tom Burke
First Class Passenger
Member # 5238

posted 12-13-2008 06:03 PM

Celebrity Solstice, 28 September - 11 night E Mediterranean from Civitavecchia. We booked it last April or May, as soon as the schedules were announced, almost 18 months before the cruise.

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Tim Agg
First Class Passenger
Member # 3185

posted 12-13-2008 08:08 PM

Thanks, Frosty4 - we will take HAL's air and pre-cruise option in Greece. We've been thinking about adding time to go somewhere else in Europe we've not yet visited. maybe Venice.

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NAL
First Class Passenger
Member # 1102

posted 12-14-2008 03:01 PM

I'm booked on QV Jan 2,2009, Southampton to NYC. Also, QM2 Nov 5, 2009 NYC to Southampton with the return on Nov 11, 2009 to NYC.

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Westerdam
First Class Passenger
Member # 2093

posted 12-15-2008 02:54 PM

I booked with one of my friends the January 3rd sailing of the Statendam. My first cruise in over 2 years!! I am so excited!!!

Nathan

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Malcolm @ cruisepage
Cruise Director
Member # 301

posted 12-16-2008 03:49 AM

Well the cruisetalkers are certainly keeping the industry afloat. Unfortunately I do not have any cruises booked.

Anymore?

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mec1
First Class Passenger
Member # 4287

posted 12-16-2008 08:03 PM

Doing Christmas on Balmoral, sailing on Saturday (and I can't wait), then Brilliance of the Seas in March and SeaDream II in April.

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eroller
First Class Passenger
Member # 1649

posted 12-16-2008 09:10 PM

Most likely REGAL EMPRESS on January 7th, and that is the only cruise I'm considering thus far in 2009.

My partner and I are going to Hawaii in February and staying at The Kahala for three nights and the Halekulani for three nights. Looking forward to that even though it's not a cruise.

With all the cruise deals out there, I'm sure I'll be booking something soon.

Ernie

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Lubber
First Class Passenger
Member # 13710

posted 12-18-2008 12:37 PM

Getting credit-crunchy here, too. We had plans back in the fall to sail QM2 in January, but ditched those plans in favor of waiting to pounce on a bargain on RCI sailing out of Norfolk, VA (we live in Richmond) late this spring on a Vision-class ship. Even those plans are tentative.

Carrying a high card balance = not good when house hunting. Certainly not these days, anyway.

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Jamaica Jeff
First Class Passenger
Member # 2487

posted 12-23-2008 11:04 PM

Ernie, I thought you were booked for Oasis.

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